Arts And Crafts Movement Jewelry

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Arts and crafts movement jewelry.

By the end of the nineteenth century arts and crafts ideals had influenced architecture painting sculpture graphics illustration book making and photography domestic design and the decorative arts including furniture and woodwork stained glass leatherwork lacemaking embroidery rug making and weaving jewelry and metalwork enameling and ceramics. In a distinctive departure from the industrial revolution in europe the guild revival movement known as arts crafts breathed new life into the business of designing and making jewelry. An arts crafts aquarmarine brooch by bernard instone a moonstone necklace and a bracelet founded in 1766 christie s offers premier auctions and private sales of the finest art antiques interiors jewelry watches wine and more. Art historian liesbeth den besten has identified six different terms to name art jewelry including contemporary studio art research design and author with the three most common being contemporary studio and art.

Curator kelly l ecuyer has defined studio jewelry as an offshoot of the studio craft movement adding that it does not refer to particular artistic styles but rather to the circumstances in which the object is produced.